National E-Systems for Combating VAT Evasion and Intra-EU Trade. Hungary’s ‘EAKER’ and Romania’s ‘RO e-Transport’

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Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. A quick look at border and other types of checks. – 3. An overview of the two systems. – 3.1. Hungary’s EKAER. The old and the new versions. – 3.2. Romania’s e-Transport. – 4. Legal challenges. – 4.1. The CMR Convention. – 4.2. Conformity with EU free movement of goods law. – 4.3. Proving intra-EU...

Between Fiction and Reality: The External Autonomy of EU Law as a 'Shapeshifter' After Opinion 1/17

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Table of Contents: I. Eureka moments. – II. A strict versus a lenient approach: hypotethicals, fictions and cursory analyses. – II.1. Hypotethicals can make the difference between a strict or a lenient approach. – II.2. Fictions and assumptions used as legal arguments. – II.3. Not analysing an issue thoroughly enough. – III....

It Is not Just About Investor-State Arbitration: 
A Look at Case C-284/16, Achmea BV

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Abstract: In the much-awaited Achmea judgment (of 6 March 2018, case C-284/16 [GC]), the Court of Justice held that investor-state tribunals (ISTs), “such as” the one under the Netherlands-Slovakia intra-EU bilateral investment treaty (BIT) are incompatible with EU law. In this arguably short judgment, the Court of Justice consolidated its...

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